The Anne Frank Sapling Project came to life in 2009, when the Anne Frank Center USA awarded Boston and 10 other sites a sapling derived from the nearly 200-year-old horse chestnut tree in 2009.

The tree stood in Amsterdam, where Frank and her family hid from 1942 to 1944.

"From my favorite spot on the floor I look up at the blue sky and the bare chestnut tree, on whose branches little raindrops shine, appearing like silver, and at the sea gulls and other birds as they glide on the wind…I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles," Anne Frank wrote in her diary in 1944.

A Brookline teenager lobbied for the sapling to be given to the city of Boston, according to the Boston Globe. Aliyah Finkel said she learned about the Anne Frank Project while preparing for her bat mitzvah.